Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Rinpoche gave this advice about resolving complaints and dealing with interpersonal conflict at the Dharma center. Rinpoche said the real enemy and the cause of all our problems is the self-cherishing thought.
The Wheel of Sharp Weapons by Dharmarakshita, a ninth-century Indian scholar, combines teachings on lojong (mind training) with the lamrim, especially karma. This text is now freely available for download as a PDF file.
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
"The best Dharma practice, the most perfect, most substantial, is without doubt the practice of bodhicitta." – Lama Yeshe
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Chapters:
Bodhicitta: The Perfection of Dharma •
The Bodhisattva Vows •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Penang, Malaysia
In this teaching excerpt, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to experience disease and other problems for all sentient beings.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: How a Positive Label Creates the Cause for Happiness
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Portland, Oregon, USA
In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins by praising Lama Yeshe's qualities as a hidden meditator with the ability to inspire people from all walks of life. Rinpoche continues with an extensive explanation of how to transform problems into happiness.
Chapters:
Transforming Problems •
How to Be a Real Professional •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche sent this advice to a Dharma center which was having difficulties with the decisions and conduct of one of the people working at the center.
By Tenzin Ösel Hita in Maitreya Instituut, Amsterdam
In this talk, Tenzin Ösel Hita discusses easy ways to reduce ego and develop compassion. Watch the video and read along with the transcript.
Topics: Introductory
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Inner Winning is the Real Winning
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Adelaide, Australia
A talk on how to transform problems into happiness by defeating the self-cherishing thought and cherishing others. Rinpoche also advises how Dharma practice in everyday life can help us at the time of death.
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Pomaia, Italy
A brief introduction to the tantric path and methods. Lama Yeshe gave this talk during His Holiness the Dalai Lama's tour through Europe in 1982.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Geneva, Switzerland
A public talk on the essential practice of mind training (lo-jong)
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
The real enemy is ignorance, the self-cherishing thought, so there’s no reason to get angry with external conditions
Topics: Negative Emotions > Delusions
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
This teaching on the shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought is an excerpt from the 33rd Kopan Course.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Renunciation
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Deer Park, Madison, Wisconsin, 1999
How to use depression and other problems to develop the good heart
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
